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Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
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No.
No, it's not. It's very easy. In the bottom right corner there is a pencil button to compose a new message and right there it asks which tpye of chat to start. Secret chat is the second topmost option after group chat. Really not hidden or complicated at all.
It should be a setting to always use encrypted chat, and it should probably prompt you when you first login.
Better yet, don't have an option to not have encrypted chats. I don't see a reason to not have everything E2EE all the time.
its some message for the users, having a secret chat kinda sounds bad, like doing something illegal and guilt trapping users into not using it